aia

aia (plural aias)

1. Alternative spelling of ayah

• AAI

From Portuguese aia. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

aia (plural aias)

1. ayah, mammy

• ꨀꨳꨩ

From Proto-Chamic *ʔiar, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

• IPA^(key): /ʔiaː/

aia

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

Non-lemma form.

aia

1. genitive singular of aed

Onomatopoeia.

aia

1. ow, ouch

• ai

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈai̯.a/, [ˈɐj.jə], [ˈɛj.jə] (rapid speech)

aia

1. Used at the beginning of a sentence that describes the location (in space or time) of the subject.

   Aia ka ʻohana ma ke kaʻa.

   The family is in the car.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ja/
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: à‧ia

Inherited from Latin ārea. Doublet of Italian area (“area”).

• aja

aia f (plural aie)

1. barnyard, farmyard, threshing floor; paved area (typical of case coloniche) used to thresh wheat, shell legumes and drying cereals

   Near-synonym: cortile

   stendere il grano sull'aia ― to spread the grain on the threshing floor

   • 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno – Verso nona”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 77:

     Uscimmo anzi da quella porta e ci trovammo sull'aia, nell'estremità orientale del pianoro, a ridosso delle mura, dove sorgevano molte costruzioni.

     We got out from that door and found ourselves on the barnyard, at the eastern end of the tableland, near the walls, where stood many buildings.

2. (medicine) area (clarification of this definition is needed)

   aia cardiaca ― cardiac area

   aia epatica ― hepatic area

3. (archaic) open space, clearing

   Synonyms: spiazzo, terreno

• aione
• menare il can per l'aia
• mettere stoppia sull'aia (“to waste time”)

Feminine of aio, presumed to be from the unattested Gothic *𐌷𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰 (*hagja), or from Latin avia. Compare Sicilian aju, Spanish ayo.

aia f (plural aie)

1. (literary) tutor, especially one hired by a wealthy family

• aia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• àia in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• aia in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Borrowed from Cantonese 哎呀 (ai¹ jaa³), possibly compounded with Portuguese ai.

aia!

1. interjection expressing fear, surprise, pain, impatience

   Aia! Qui boniteza.

   Wow! How beautiful.

   Aia, qui susto!

   Oh, how frightening!

• Unlike the Cantonese interjection, may sometimes be used positively.

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#a

From Proto-Malayic *air, Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

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aia

1. water

From Latin avia (“grandmother”).

• Rhymes: -ajɐ
• Hyphenation: ai‧a

aia f (plural aias)

1. lady-in-waiting
2. tutor, teacher
3. chambermaid

• aio

• → Hindi: आया (āyā)
  • → English: ayah

From a, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ja/

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• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: a‧ia

aia

1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of ăla

   Synonym: acea

aia

1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of ăla

• ايا

From Proto-Chamic *ʔiar, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ. Compare Eastern Cham ꨀꨳꨩ (aia).

aia

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

aia

1. water

• Prehistoria: Lenguas y dialectos indigenas de Colombia (Luis Duque Gómez, Sergio Elías Ortiz, 1965), citing Romero's wordlist; also present in Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 261